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  East Asia timeline
     
c. 500,000 years ago
 
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Peking man shelters in caves south of modern Beijing, leaving many scraps of evidence of his way of life     
c. 500,000 years ago
 
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Fire is used in China by Peking man, and may have been in use much earlier in Africa      
c. 60,000 years ago
 
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The first human inhabitants of Australia make the crossing from southeast Asia     
c. 30,000 years ago
 
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With the sea level falling, a land bridge (known as Beringia) forms between Siberia and Alaska, enabling humans to enter the continent of America      
Mount Susitna, in the west of Alaska


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c. 8000 BC
 
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Humans cross from eastern Siberia to the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido, according to the earliest traces left by the Jomon culture      
c. 2850 BC
 
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The Chinese discover that the cocoon of a certain worm can be unwound, spun as thread and then woven - thus creating silk